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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Feb 10, 2016
Educate the people and keep the 'manji' (卍) on Japan's maps
Why the ancient symbol should be left where it is, despite its dark connotations from the 20th century.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 24, 2015
Re-print of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' unleashes row in Germany
For the first time since Adolf Hitler's death, Germany is publishing the Nazi leader's political treatise "Mein Kampf," unleashing a highly charged row over whether the text is an inflammatory racist diatribe or a useful educational tool.
WORLD
Dec 20, 2015
German media says document confirms Hitler only had one testicle
A medical document shows that Adolf Hitler only had one testicle, German media said Saturday, suggesting there is some truth after all to a popular British song that says the dictator had "only got one ball."
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 25, 2015
Amazon yank Nazi-, Imperial Japan-themed TV ads from N.Y. subway
Amazon.com Inc. on Monday agreed to pull advertisements for a new television show featuring Nazi-inspired imagery from New York City's subway system, a transit official said, hours after Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the company to do so.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2015
Low-cost retailer Shimamura pulls pendant bearing Nazi symbol
Low-cost apparel retailer Shimamura Co., has removed necklaces that resemble a swastika, which was the notorious symbol of the Nazi Party, amid a growing online backlash over the design.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2015
Germany should buy — and show — Hitler's art
The German government should exhibit Adolf Hitler's artwork publically to help people better undersand what happened to Germany in the 1930s and '40s.
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2015
Europe's refugee problem an echo of the 1930s
Anti-migrant sentiment rising across Europe is a distressing echo of the attitude toward Jewish refugees in the 1930s.
WORLD
Apr 26, 2015
Germany says will deny entry to some Russian Night Wolves bikers
Germany will block some members of an ultra-nationalist Russian motorcycle club from entering the country, government sources said Saturday, a day after Poland also announced an entry ban for the group which is blacklisted by the United States.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 24, 2015
Why prosecuting Auschwitz crimes still matters
The best symbol of German atonement for World War II is Chancellor Angela Merkel's relentless efforts to negotiate compromises in conflicts others want to resolve by force.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 3, 2015
Anti-Islam group PEGIDA holds first Austria march
PEGIDA, the anti-Islam movement born in Germany, drew hundreds of supporters and counterdemonstrators to the streets of Vienna when it held its first march in neighboring Austria on Monday.
WORLD
Jan 26, 2015
Past horrors haunt a Polish town
Bogumila recalls how as a small girl growing up in the Polish town of Oswiecim she saw prisoners beaten by Nazi guards and watched with her mother the distant glow of the crematorium fires of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 26, 2015
Survivor detailed camp life in his book
In a little leather book, the kind some men used to use to list lovers, Holocaust survivor Hy Abrams keeps the names that still haunt him: Auschwitz, Plaszow, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee.
WORLD
Jan 14, 2015
Czechs discover antenna used in plot to kill Nazi kingpin Heydrich
A British-made radio antenna used in the World War II plot to kill Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich has surfaced in a Czech village.
WORLD
Oct 2, 2014
Nazi hunters seek German probe of WWII death squad suspects
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has sent the German government a list of 80 people it believes murdered Jews while serving in Nazi death squads in World War II and who may be still alive, the head of the Israel office of the organization said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 5, 2014
Memory collides with politics in Putin's 'Normandy landing'
D-Day observances have always been part memorial, part politics.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 10, 2014
Britain's MI5 guarded Boy Scouts from Communist, fascist infiltration between world wars
Britain's Security Service, known as MI5, worked with the Boy Scout movement to help it avoid infiltration by both communists and fascists between the world wars, previously secret papers show.

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